That Untravelled World

That Untravelled World
Author: Eric Shipton
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1911342665

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'It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings.' That Untravelled World is the autobiography of one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. Eric Shipton was a pioneering explorer, journeying to places that did not feature on maps and to unexplored mountains, such as the High Dauphiné. Shipton describes early childhood days filled with adventures; his first encounter with the high mountains on a visit to the Pyrenees, and the onset of his climbing career inspired by travels in Norway with a friend. He reminisces on first meeting infamous explorer H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, and their first expedition together to Mount Kenya. Tilman and Shipton were later to become one of the most famous climbing partnerships of all time. Filled with anecdotes from different periods of his life, Shipton takes us on his journey from Kilimanjaro and Mount Stanley alongside Tilman, his discovery of the route to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, summiting Mount Kamet with mountaineering icon Frank Smythe, and multiple expeditions to Everest. First published in 1969, That Untravelled World is the story of an adventurer who, inspired by Edward Whymper, travelled to feral landscapes across the globe, and has in turn inspired generations of climbers and mountaineers.

That Untravelled World

That Untravelled World
Author: Ian Reid
Publisher: Apollo Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012
Genre: Australian fiction
ISBN: 9781742583969

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It is 1912, and young Harry Hopewell arrives in Perth to work on the construction of a wireless station commissioned by the new Australian Commonwealth Government. He is full of enthusiasm about the miraculous new world of possibilities opened up by radio transmission, and buoyed by his growing friendship with Nellie Weston. But when Nellie and her parents vanish without a trace, his world begins to darken.

That Untravelled World

That Untravelled World
Author: Eric Earle Shipton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1970
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Untravelled World

The Untravelled World
Author: Michael Adams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 275
Release: 1984
Genre: Foreign correspondents
ISBN: 9780704300590

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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1898
Genre:
ISBN:

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The World's Best Poetry

The World's Best Poetry
Author: Bliss Carman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1034
Release: 1904
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

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Upon that Mountain

Upon that Mountain
Author: Eric Shipton
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1910240265

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Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre. Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the book, like so many of Shipton's works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history - that just before the Second World War - an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a 'civilisation' about to embark on a cataclysmic war.

The World's Best Poetry ...

The World's Best Poetry ...
Author: John Vance Cheney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1904
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

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Fallen Giants

Fallen Giants
Author: Maurice Isserman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0300164203

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In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.